FSU TEFL 120 Fall 1, 2025

 Date/Time: December 5 (2hr) Location: Kellogg Building  Topic/Skill: Grammar and Writing Feedback provided to the tutee: We went over ways to remember when to use noun adjectives and some quick and easy ones to use. I recommended her to make list that she can easily reference while she completes her homework assignments.  Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that giving multiple examples when going over grammar is very important. Most students need to see things in more than one way in order to be able to fully grasp a concept and apply it. 

Date/Time: November 17 (1hr) Location: Zoom/ Over the Phone Topic/Skill: Grammar and Writing Feedback provided to the tutee: I showed her some ways to error correct herself as we went over some of her questions regarding her practice assignments. Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that some students may second guess themselves when writing, so by giving them tips on how to do certain things or on how to correct thier own errors as they work through their assignments, leads to less mistakes in their final submissions. Plus this also helps build their confidence and knowledge

 Date: November 12th Location: Over Zoom Lesson: Finishing speaking skills  Today was my final lesson with Seunghye. It went very good! I am excited and am confident (if she keeps up this pace) that she can get a good score on her Duolingo test in December. Today's lesson we just did a couple picture descriptions. One of the pictures was very hard - apparently it was a polar bear but I barely even saw that! And she still did a good job of describing it. I was shocked as she kept going after the timer had ended. This was a good final lesson, and I hope she reaches out whenever she has questions about natural phrases, slang, or anything about speaking English in America. 

 Date: November 7th  Location: Over Zoom Lesson: Speaking I thought this lesson was going to be the final lesson I would have with Seunghye, so we went for almost two hours doing picture description. This was a good session. Here are some examples from the picture practice.  At first I included the original transcription in my notes but I forgot to for this session. Anyways, this lesson was very and I am very confident in Seugnhye's speaking ability now. Just after a few minutes of warming up, after a few pictures, she was perfect in describing the pictures. Sometimes the pictures were really hard to see, or abstract, yet she still did a good job. I am very proud of her and I look forward to the last meeting on Wednesday. 

 Date: October 29th Location: Zoom Topic: American Culture and speaking Today I met with Seunghye. I started the lesson by asking her what she knew about Halloween, seeing it was later that week. She knew somewhat, and we discussed it. This was helpful for giving her cultural terms for Halloween. We then went on to do the Duolingo picture exercises. Here's an example from our lesson:  The end part included a short little tangent where I taught her different types of fur/hide.etc. and then clothing etc. So, organically, I could teach Seunghye natural phrases she wanted to learn through correcting her Duolingo practice.  We did about six pictures, where it was like I said before where I would write down what she said, and we were go through it together. 

 Date: October 29th and November 5th. (Two sessions combined in this blog, last two meetings with Luis, both were 1.5 hours, so I made it a three-in-1 blog).  Location: Zoom Lesson: Listening, dicussing videos.  October 29th:  Today I met with Luis over zoom. We started the pre-listening activity with a pre-pre-listening activity by talking about the topics from last session. He remembered the topic of football and that gave me a pretty good idea that has comprehension was solid. Sure, there were some holes, but this check-in at the beginning of the session gave me a great idea of where he was at for listening. I think the biggest part of listening is teaching it over a long period of time. Similar to speaking, or anything I could tutor ESL students in, the overarching progress is better to check than progress during the session. Anyways, we continued this lesson by starting with a pre-listening schema activity. I was nervous about this lesson because I did not choos...